9 Quotes by Katrin Schumann

Everything we choose to do has consequences. And people do not change unless they want to change. They show us their colors; we just don’t see them.

Too often, people who suffered trauma let themselves be defined by it, and she has been determined to avoid that fate.

Silence isn’t always empty, is it?

She understood then that she was truly alone inside herself, as were all human beings on earth.

She’d started to understand there was a chasm between how people saw their lives, how they wanted others to see them, and how they really were. A chasm that was too deep and dark to explore.

She yearns for the simplicity of a love that is requited and uncontested, a love that sings as unfettered as a note from a violin. But the realities of the world do not allow for this.

All these years into this interminable war, she is struck by the notion that human life is not only fleeting – a mere blink of an eye – but essentially meaningless, snatched away for no reason and given for no reason.

You could never truly be objective or dispassionate; your biases would always drive the way you saw reality and expressed facts.

People thought whatever they thought. There was no changing people’s minds now.